Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and not in every cases it works well. We are working on it.

Reproduction

viviparous

Types

Lectotype: MNKNU 26044 (designated by Vedmederja et al., 1986:58)

Comment

Venomous! Synonymy mainly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.). This species does not fall into the Montivipera clade as defined by GARRIGUES et al. 2005 but rather in the Pelias clade. Nor a Montivipera fide Wüster (pers. comm.).

References

Bekoshvili, David and Igor V Doronin. 2015. New data on the distribution of snakes in Georgia (Causasus). Herpetological Review 46 (3): 388-390